At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

Named after an outlaw who used the basin as a hideout.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

Although built to generate electricity for Marylanders, this dam has become an all-you-can-eat buffet for American bald eagles.

This historic lighthouse was well known for the large number of women who served as its keeper.

The longest spit in the United States ends at a lighthouse in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

A series of waterfalls and pools that flow through the 'Ohe'o Gulch and into the ocean.

The famous aviator's final resting place is a study in natural beauty.

A tunnel of hardened lava along Maui’s famous Road to Hana.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

In the power of this waterfall, Alexander Hamilton saw the potential for industry.

These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.

The penultimate and final resting places of British General Edward Braddock—minus a few bits and pieces.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.